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Enterprise IT Strategy — Post Mobile℠Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:14:46 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on Will $399 iPad Air 3 have an A9 chip, & Apple’s A9X chip be reserved for iPad Pro? by Lou Mirandahttps://loumiranda.com/2016/01/14/will-399-ipad-air-3-have-an-a9-chip-apples-a9x-chip-be-reserved-for-ipad-pro/comment-page-1/#comment-2740
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:14:46 +0000http://loumiranda.com/?p=827#comment-2740Well, here we are a year or so later, and it all came true. Today Apple released a $329(!) iPad with an A9 CPU, no keyboard, no Pencil support. Meanwhile iPad Pro’s have all of that and an A9X CPU. Apple gunning for education market, if not also low-cost enterprise and consumer.
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Sun, 11 Dec 2016 14:33:40 +0000http://loumiranda.com/?p=1051#comment-2699Unsure. The old paradigm of a file cabinet with folders is still relevant, given how poor meta information is about file types. I wonder how much more difficult it would be for iOS to add a file system.
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Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:18:10 +0000http://loumiranda.com/?p=490#comment-2660Writing this one year later after this article was published. In my experience being on modern internet from day one I can admit to myself that web really is dying, content is no longer engaging me to browse the website, I grab something what is quick easy and instant, like for instance an app feed instead taking time to going on website and browsing it for information.

Unless person look for really specific data, otherwise 90% of web is just not interest people no more. For instance I’m gaming addict since 1995, so I do engage in everything that surrounds gaming, yesterday I went about 3-4 gaming websites and didn’t click a single link, just skimmed through.

Why I did this? Later I logged to my phone where I got apps that delivered me news, I logged to instagram, I logged in to facebook and various groups on it, I saw some pages feed, people feed, everyone shared insights trouble free and quickly. Now some of these people went on web and got that information. But looking to myself and how I used spend hours a day reading websites, I don’t do this anymore, I think that apps and social media is taking over. Reading web look way to artificial to me. (I googled – web is dying and this is how I got here)

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Mon, 13 Jun 2016 16:29:12 +0000http://loumiranda.com/?p=1051#comment-2644What is “typically” in “typically, you differentiate OSes based on user interaction technology” ? Windows doesn’t do that, ChromeOS doesn’t do that. Linux doesn’t do that. Android doesn’t even really do that (there are non-touch Android desktops/laptops). Only Apple does that.

This sounds like one company’s random hang-ups, or a marketing slogan (“if you need a pen, you failed”, “toaster-oven”, etc…) mysteriously and mistakenly turned into a core tenet.

Also if making storyboards reusable on phones and iPads is smart, wouldn’t making them reusable on Macs too smarter ?

And there is core hardware on the Pro iPads that doesn’t exist on iPhones (Pen, large screen) and reciprocally (Force Touch, touch ID)

This all seems a bit random to me.

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Mon, 13 Jun 2016 12:08:53 +0000http://loumiranda.com/?p=1051#comment-2643The thing about creating a “padOS” is, you have to think about these things:
– On OS X, you have a 12″ MacBook and an iMac with a 30″ screen. Why aren’t these two OSes, if size is a big deal?
– On iOS, where does padOS begin and phoneOS end? Do you want a complicated OS on iPad mini? If not, then iPad mini and iPad Air, which have the exact same pixel dimensions, would end up having 2 different OSes.
– We have very powerful apps like Pages, Keynote, OmniGraffle, and Pixelmator that are very similar on iOS and OS X. So what does a padOS need, if apps are already as powerful as their Mac equivalents?
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Mon, 13 Jun 2016 12:05:19 +0000http://loumiranda.com/?p=1051#comment-2642Well, typically, you differentiate OSes based on user interaction technology, not device or screen size.

So, for example, iOS, tvOS, and watchOS are different not because of screen size, but because of user input:
– iOS is touchscreen
– tvOS is a remote, with trackpad-like swipe/click
– watchOS is touch + crown + 2nd button

All 3 also use voice as input. And you can hook a Bluetooth keyboard up to iOS & tvOS.

So, yes, iOS & watchOS are both touchscreen, but there is additional core hardware on Apple Watch that doesn’t exist on any iOS device. And Apple Watch is *so* much smaller than an iOS device that the UX has to be reworked, so apps must be designed very differently.

Therefore, from a software development point of view, iOS, tvOS, & watchOS devices need separate “storyboards” in Xcode because they are so different.

What Apple has chosen to do (in a very smart way, I might add) is make storyboards reusable between iPhones and iPads, thus keeping them both on iOS.

Some developers abuse this or misunderstand this and create blown up iPhone apps on iPads. This is sheer laziness and/or ignorance. (Hello, Twitter?!)

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Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:02:17 +0000http://loumiranda.com/?p=1051#comment-2641So basically the choice is between either a) dropping support for older devices or b) under-utilizing newer devices ? With Apple favoring a) for now ?
Also, parallel to the toaster-fridge joke about phones and laptops, isn’t using a phone-targeted OS on a tablet kind of a microwave-fridge situation ?

Failing the will to build up a flexible OS that can tackle several usage scenarios, isn’t Apple condemned to either hamper “secondary” devices (the iPad compared to the iPhone) or fragment their ecosystem either via bespoke OSes (PadOS on top of tvOS, iOS, MacOS, WatchOS) or via user-unfriendly device-specific OS/app features (touchID, ForceTouch, multitasking, LivePics…)

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Mon, 13 Jun 2016 00:43:59 +0000http://loumiranda.com/?p=1051#comment-2639I wonder if a combination of extensions and scripting—possibly with Swift—would accomplish everything that we think we need an exposed filesystem for.
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Mon, 13 Jun 2016 00:07:39 +0000http://loumiranda.com/?p=1051#comment-2638Would love to see the iPad Pro have more of a dedicated file manager to it, and to enable easier integration and multiple file management with the Google Drives and Dropboxes of this world.
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